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George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 – 1880) was not only keenly aware of women’s issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot’s construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women’s issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women’s issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women’s rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women’s struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Table of Contents
Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial Identity
Chapter 2
Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical Life
Chapter 3
Mirroring Reality: Hetty’s Marginalization in Adam Bede
Chapter 4
Spoilt and Spoiling Women in “The Lifted Veil” and “Brother Jacob”
Chapter 5
Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the Floss
Chapter 6
Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas Marner
Chapter 7
Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in Romola
Chapter 8
Inheritance and Othering in Felix Holt
Chapter 9
Tragic Destiny in The Spanish Gypsy
Chapter 10
Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot’s Shorter Poetry
Chapter 11
Marriage and Miseducation In Middlemarch
Chapter 12
Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda
Product details
| Published | 25 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 250 |
| ISBN | 9781793646941 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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